New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are implementing a mandated self-quarantine for travelers from any state where COVID-19 cases pass a certain threshold, WNBC reports.

A county in Oregon is exempting people of color from its directive to wear face masks in public if they are worried about racial profiling or harassment.

HHS will help address COVID-19 health disparities through a $40 million collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

An Illinois hospital nurse claims she contracted COVID-19 after hospital leaders told employees not to wear masks for a short time in March, reports CBS Chicago.

COVID-19 hospitalizations reached record levels in seven states this week amid continued surges in many parts of the South and West. 

Only half of U.S. states offer public guidance on how to allocate mechanical ventilators during a public health emergency, a new study shows.

Below are seven hospitals or health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CMOs.

Some central Texas hospitals have reinstated policies prohibiting visitors in an attempt to reduce virus transmission as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge across the state, according to KXAN.

State and federal regulators are investigating claims that Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Women's Hospital is unfairly targeting Native American women through a COVID-19 screening policy, according to a joint report from New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica.

Earlier in the pandemic, new outbreaks of the coronavirus were centered in nursing homes, prisons and meatpacking plants. Now clusters of outbreaks are emerging in bars and churches as the country enters a new phase of the pandemic, The New York Times reports.

Sixty-four percent of all rural counties in the U.S. do not have a COVID-19 testing site, according to a recent analysis.

There are more Americans concerned about their communities reopening prematurely than there were two weeks ago, a new Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index poll shows.

COVID-19 cases are surging in many parts of the South, West and Midwest, though areas of the Northeast are reopening after experiencing drastic declines.

COVID-19 cases have increased in 26 states over the past two weeks, according to The New York Times.

Nationwide, nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults supported stay-at-home orders and nonessential business closures in early May, a new CDC survey shows.

Florida is the latest state to surpass 100,000 COVID-19 cases, joining six others, NPR reports.

After the global number of new COVID-19 cases hit a daily high, a World Health Organization official refuted claims that the rise is due to an increase in testing.

The American College of Physicians issued clinical advice regarding the effectiveness of N95 respirators, surgical masks and cloth masks when preventing COVID-19 in a "living document" published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Five U.S. regions contributed to a national increase in positive COVID-19 tests the week ending June 13, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

Knowledge of COVID-19 varies based on the sex, age and race/ethnicity of people living in the U.S., a study published in JAMA Network Open found.